I hope it goes without saying that when I make a post like this, I'm a) going on very limited first impressions of the movie, and b) being intentionally dismissive for the purposes of humor. The very nature about making jokes is that you are setting aside the inherent complexity of any issue to make light of one particular aspect of it.

Having said that, the things I found similar (at first glance) to Phone Booth were:

1) Protagonist alone in a tense situation while numerous police and other bystandars look on;

2) Protagonist possibly framed for a crime he didn't commit, and trying to convince the authorities he didn't commit it while being unable to abandon his current circumstances because they are the only thing that prevent him from being detained;

Ah, yes. Classic overreaction. Perhaps I would have understood your comment better with some slight wording changes: "I read the script for this movie. It's actually nothing like Phone Booth. However, I found it much worse than Phone Booth, and since you didn't like Phone Booth, you really won't like this." ;-)

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